The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs has announced that workers will have a total of seven days off from work to celebrate two national holidays that fall on the weekend next month.

People are seen flocking to the Hung Kings Temple Festival in 2013. (Photo: Tuoi Tre)

Workers and laborers in Viet Nam will have three days off work during the Hung Kings death anniversary to commemorate the event, which falls on April 16 (Saturday), the ministry said, adding that staff of political and political-social affairs organizations will have a similar schedule.

The break will last from the beginning of the holiday on April 16 until April 18 (Monday), according to the ministry.

The death anniversary of the Hung Kings, or Hung Kings Temple Festival, is commemorated annually on the tenth day of the third month in the lunar calendar to honor the kings, who are believed to have made great contributions in building the country from its very start.

The ministry noted that as Reunification Day (April 30) and International Labor Day (May 1) also fall on a weekend, laborers and workers will be allowed to take four consecutive days off work, from April 30 (Saturday) to May 3 (Tuesday).

Reunification Day is a state holiday commemorating the unconditional surrender of Duong Van Minh, president of the former Saigon regime, to Vietnamese liberation troops on April 30, 1975.  As a result, Vietnamese liberation troops were able to claim the Independence Palace and put an end to the American war in Viet Nam.

The historically momentous triumph was the direct result of the 1975 Spring Campaign.

Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after late President Ho Chi Minh, while the palace was changed to the Reunification Palace.

Reunification Day and International Labor Day are national holidays in Viet Nam.

(Source: Tuoi Tre News)